* If you go to a football game, you can’t enter the stadium without getting patted down (“Mike Backs Air Scans,” Nov. 24). Why is it OK for pat-downs at football games but not at airports?

E. Drossman

Manhattan

* Right now, pat-downs and screenings are the only methods we have to keep us safe from terrorist bombs placed aboard planes.

Better to suffer the inconveniences of airport-security measures than to be blown to bits.

Chuck Eckstein

Brooklyn

* The Obama administration isn’t really concerned about the security of this country.

The screenings and pat-downs are a show to make everyone feel like they are doing something when nothing at all is actually being done except inconveniencing and humiliating the American public.

Why must we screen and grope kids and nuns? They aren’t the ones who hate us. We should be profiling.

Steven C. Atkinson

Spring Hill, Fla.

* We should never tolerate anyone using inappropriate measures. We learned this when we were young, and it is our right not to be pawed by anyone.

Going through security stations and having our bags checked properly is quite sufficient.

Jacqueline Loconsolo

Brooklyn

* How does the Obama administration’s TSA justify the offensively intrusive body searches at airports in the name of protecting America, while at the same time doing absolutely nothing to secure our southern border with Mexico?

Obama has no problem depriving Americans of their constitutional rights and protections when they fly, yet he vigorously fights the state of Arizona and, in effect all Americans, for daring to try to protect its citizens from the threat of illegal immigration.

Michael Maurer

Long Branch, NJ

* The TSA should get in line — the IRS already has Americans by the family jewels.

Vladimir Vizner

Brooklyn

* Scanning was introduced to save lives.

We should give those more concerned with the constitutional right to privacy than the safety of their fellow passengers an option: Either stay home or travel by Pony Express.

The latter option may not work out if the pony exercises his right to refuse.

Carl Rosenberg

Great Neck

* What happened to all of the thumb-sucking bed-wetters who stayed up night after night agonizing over President George W. Bush violating the privacy rights of a handful of terrorists?

Hypocrisy? Or did they never have any credibility to begin with? Perhaps they are all too busy sending hate mail to Bristol Palin on “Dancing with the Stars.”

Jerry Cunningham

Stratford, Conn.

* Isn’t every flight that we take knowing that the best precautions are in place to keep us safe from those who wish to harm us a good flight?

Given the alternative, I think it’s worth the time, cost and effort.

Carol Schwefel

Manhattan

* Wouldn’t it be easier and less expensive to have a bomb-sniffing dog at the airport, like the one at Kennedy Airport that sniffs out fruits and vegetables and does a great job?